Ni Chu

At the second watch, more than 100 Chu soldiers drove more than 100 carts full of hay back to the barracks.It's just that the animals that pull the carts are not all farm cattle as Xiang Ye proposed, but there are cattle, horses, mules and donkeys.

Xiang Ye looked at the animals pulling the carts and couldn't help but a wry smile. The reason he wanted the cattle was that the cattle had a strong momentum when they were running, and they ran at an even speed. Moreover, the cattle were relatively strong, so it was difficult for them to be shot to death by the Qin army. .But now Chu Jun, who went out to look for the cart, got back such a group of miscellaneous animals, which really made him dumbfounded.

"General, I will search all the surrounding villages. Although the carts are assembled, it is difficult to find the farm cattle. I have to bring these animals back to make up the number! If the task entrusted by the general is not completed, the general will punish you!" An officer half-kneeled at the station In front of Xiang Yu in front of the convoy, he bowed his head and cupped his fists and said.

Xiang Yu waved his hand to the officer and said, "You've worked hard, go down, now that it's a time of war, it's good to be able to find these things, remember this punishment for now, and I'll settle it with you later!"

The officer thanked him, got up, took two steps back, turned and left.

After the officer left, Xiang Yu said to Xiang Ye who was standing beside him: "The carts full of hay are ready, but I don't know if these animals are suitable for use?"

Xiang Ye looked at the animals pulling the cart with a bitter face, and after a long time he said helplessly, "They are the only ones that are suitable for use or not! I can't let the soldiers pull the carts and charge towards the city wall!"

"You want these animals to rush towards the city wall with cartloads of hay?" Xiang Yu stared at Xiang Ye in astonishment for a long time before he asked, "How can you make these animals follow your instructions to rush towards the city wall?" ?”

"I have my own way." Xiang Ye pulled the corner of his mouth upwards, and said to Xiang Yu: "There is still something urgent to do now, please order the drummers to prepare to beat the drums, the general, and we will light a fire under Yongqiu City with great fanfare! "

Xiang Yu looked at Xiang Ye with some puzzlement. He couldn't understand something like lighting a fire under Yongqiu City. Logically speaking, the more concealed the better, but Xiang Ye wanted to make a lot of noise, and even drummers beat it Help out.

"Order people to immediately tie up the corresponding straw figures according to the number of carts and put them in the position of the rider." Before Xiang Yu understood, Xiang Ye said to an officer behind him: "Be fast. After the straw figures are tied, give them Put on our army armor and launch an attack on Yongqiu as soon as everything is ready!"

Seeing Xiang Ye's confident appearance, Xiang Yu didn't want to ask more questions, so he had to let him go and see what earth-shattering move he could make in the end.

At midnight, the grass man and the cart were all ready, and Xiang Ye ordered people to drive the cart to the place where the Chu army lined up during the day and set up a formation.

Behind the cart was a thousand soldiers from Xiang Ye's headquarters. Xiang Ye ordered these soldiers to wear plain clothes and stand in a neat line behind the cart, shouting "Revenge for General Cao".

The shouts of the Chu army quickly alarmed the Qin army on the top of the city. Many Qin soldiers who had already fallen asleep heard that the Chu army was attacking the city, so they got up quickly, loaded their crossbow arrows and aimed towards the city.

"What are they doing?" Li You stood on the top of the city, leaned over and looked down, and asked the general next to him in amazement, "Did the bandits start attacking the city again?"

Pianjiang shook his head, and said in a very puzzled way: "From the sound of shouting, their number should be no more than a thousand. Could it be that the subordinates of the bandit leader who died in the battle before came here to avenge the chief?" gone?"

Li You nodded, and said to the general: "Pay close attention to the movement in the city. The bandit leader is a man. If the two sides are not hostile, I must have a drink with him."

Pianjiang bowed to Li You and said: "Your Excellency, don't say such unlucky words. He has already been punished. At this time, there is a yin and yang distance from us. How can you have a good time with him?"

"Hehe, I just ignored it!" Li You smiled and said to the general, "I'll leave this to you. I'll go check around to prevent bandits from attacking from other directions!"

Pian Jiang responded, lying on the edge of the battlements, and looked down the dark city without blinking.

Xiang Ye rode on Chiji's back, looking at the city wall of Yongqiu five hundred paces away.The Yongqiu City painted with mountain lacquer only showed a faint shadow in the night. If it weren't for the faint swaying flames on the top of the city, it would be more like a black hole darker than the night.

Yongqiu City was like a monster that opened its arms that were not generous and grinned at the Chu army.At the foot of the city, there were nearly [-] corpses of the Chu army lying there. It wasn't that Xiang Yu didn't want to drag those corpses back to the burial, but that the Qin army on the city was always paying attention to the movement below the city. They would shoot crossbow arrows down the city, so that the soldiers of the Chu army who were going to collect the corpses did not dare to move forward.

"Light it up!" Xiang Ye first looked at Wei Feng beside him, and then said, "Urge the livestock to attack the city wall!"

Following his order, hundreds of carts filled with withered grass were set ablaze by soldiers of the Chu army holding torches, and a flame that reached the sky suddenly ignited in front of the camp of the Chu army.

The flames soared into the sky, and half of the night sky was dyed as red as the setting sun. Standing behind the flames, each of the Chu soldiers was illuminated by the flames with a golden light. Looking from a distance, they were truly mighty.

Hundreds of donkeys, horses, mules, and cows that were quietly pulling in front of the Chu army were startled by the sudden burning flames behind them, screaming and running towards Yongqiu City. go.Amidst the chaos of donkeys braying, horses neighing, and cows mooing, large blazing carts slammed into the city of Yongqiu in the depths of the night without thinking.

On the driver's seat of the cart, straw men wearing Chu army armor stood upright, looking from a distance, they looked like a group of Chu army driving chariots and animals preparing to fight the Yongqiu defenders to the death.

"Wei Feng, follow me!" Xiang Ye turned over and jumped off the horse after the animal pulled the cart for more than a hundred steps, waved to Wei Feng, and shouted in a low voice.

Before the words were finished, he had already leaped out with his back bent forward.

Wei Feng also jumped off his horse, followed closely behind Xiang Ye, and rushed out in the direction of Yongqiu City.

The two ran very fast, and when the cart was still more than [-] steps away from the city wall, they had already reached a place only [-] steps away from the city wall.

"Shoot that general!" Xiang Ye whispered to Wei Feng towards a figure on the city wall who was directing the Qin army's crossbowmen to deploy defenses.

Wei Feng nodded his head, pulled out an arrow from his back, put it on the string, and shot it towards the general who was busy directing the Qin army to deploy defenses on the city wall.

On Yongqiu City, the general of the Qin Army was directing the crossbowmen to deploy defenses. Although the Qin Army crossbowmen were well-trained, they had just been awakened from sleep, and their brains were somewhat chaotic, and they did not complete the deployment in a short time.

Seeing that the burning chariot was only more than a hundred steps away from the city wall, the general became anxious. When the cart rushed towards the city wall, he already understood what the Chu army wanted to do, but the crossbowmen on the city were Unexpectedly, after he gave the defensive order, only a small number of people completed the winding of the crossbow.

The impatient general saw a Qin army crossbowman reloading the machine crossbow in a hurry. Perhaps because he was too nervous, he reloaded it several times, and the arrows fell from the machine crossbow.

"Get up!" Pianjiang stepped forward and pulled the crossbowman aside, snatched the machine crossbow and crossbow arrows from his hand, glared at him fiercely, and roared fiercely: "I can't even install the crossbow, I'm afraid Bao! Get out!"

The crossbowman was so frightened by the general's roar that he rolled and crawled away.

Pianjiang buckled the crossbow arrows into the machine crossbow, turned around and stood beside the battlements, raised the machine crossbow flatly, and aimed at a bull pulling a cart.

His fingers were about to pull the crossbow when he suddenly felt a gust of wind blow towards him.

"Pfft!" Pianjiang heard the sound of a sharp weapon piercing through the bone, this was the last sound he heard, because after the sound fell, an arrow shot from a bow and arrow had been stably stuck on his forehead .

The general's body fell straight backwards, and the Qin army on the city wall lost its commander, and suddenly panicked.

Li You, who had just left, heard the commotion on the city wall, and hurried back. When he arrived at the place where he was about to be shot, there was a "wow" sound from below the city.

A healthy horse whose hair was ignited by the flames on the cart behind it slammed into the city wall. After it hit the solid city wall, the burning cart also hit it.

As the first car hit the city wall, another large car hit the city wall one after another, and soon a raging fire ignited at the foot of the city.

"Go!" Xiang Ye, who was hiding in the dark, saw the burning cart hit the city wall, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he waved to Wei Feng and greeted in a low voice.

After Xiang Ye greeted him, Wei Feng followed closely behind him, retreating towards the array of Chu troops who kept shouting behind him.

"Defense! Defend!" Li You waved his sword and shouted at the Qin army on the city, "Beware of robbers who enter the city!"

Li You gave an order, and the crossbowmen of the Qin army immediately stood on the edge of the battlements. Each of them held their crossbows flat and aimed at the Chu army who had been submerged in the darkness hundreds of steps away.

Under the cover of the fire burning at the foot of Yongqiu City, Xiang Ye and Wei Feng took advantage of the darkness to return to the formation.

The two turned their heads, glanced at the burning fire at the foot of the city, looked at each other and smiled, and Xiang Ye shouted to the Chu army: "The mission is completed, return to the camp!"

More than a thousand Chu soldiers stopped shouting, took off their clothes, and quickly withdrew from the battlefield under the cover of night.

The Chu army stopped shouting, but the Qin army on the city did not dare to relax their vigilance. The fire below the city made the city wall red, and the corpses were burning in the fire from time to time. The stench of burning came from the foot of the city to the wall along with the thick smoke.

The fire shone on Qin Jun's face, so that their eyesight could only reach more than ten meters below the city. The Chu army had already retreated in the distance, but the Qin Jun on the city didn't notice it at all.